@drossbucket BY THE WAY I have a new theory of the bat and ball. Last thing you want to hear about I know
-
-
And also repeatedly discovering that fields I studied 30 years ago, that were making good progress, were simply abandoned afaict. Not due to intrinsic difficulty, but because fashions changed, afaict.
-
It seems like in a lot of fields, the direction is set by a handful of highly creative, productive people who set the research program, and then there’s a few hundred followers who do the grunt work. When for whatever reason the 1-6 leaders stop functioning, the field does too.
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
A model I like: research fields form as positive feedback loops around little nuggets of insight that get amplified. There's a potential barrier (several) to get over to get that feedback loop started. And so there's zillions of proto-fields that could but don't get started
-
So alt-research support should identify the activation energy barriers and lower them…
- 3 more replies
New conversation -
-
-














| ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄|

| All the low-hanging |

| fruit has been picked |

|___________| 



(\__/) ||








(•ㅅ•) ||







/ づ



Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.